Dear Students,
In July, we asked you to tell us your plans for living and learning for the Fall 2020 semester. Over 1,300 students told us that they planned to live and learn on campus. We now ask you to tell us your plans for living and learning for the Module 2 portion of the Spring 2021 semester, so Monday, February 22 through Monday, May 17. Please see the Spring 2021 academic calendar here. If you are remote for Fall 2020, you may attend in person for Spring 2021, and vice versa. Or you may continue what you initially chose. Please complete the following form by noon on Thursday, November 19, to let us know what you intend.
Student Living and Learning Decision for Spring 2021You will need to be logged into your allegheny.edu account to complete this form. Once you have completed the form, a confirmation will be sent to your allegheny.edu e-mail. If this confirmation does not arrive, then you did not successfully complete the form.
Students will be able to change their minds up through the beginning of the Spring 2021 semester, so through Monday, January 18. After that date students may elect to change their mind from in-person to remote but not vice versa. i.e., after that date, the decision to study remotely may not be changed. As we know that bills are due on December 31, there will be no late fees assessed in January for students who change their minds about the living decision in January.
This is separate from any request you may wish to make to remain on campus for the remote periods (November 22 to December 12, 2020 and/or January 18 to February 19, 2021). The Remote Session Housing Request was sent to you on October 1 and has a November 1 deadline.
As we said to you in July, we did not take lightly the unprecedented decision to waive the College’s housing residency requirement, and allow students to attend the College from home, as the campus living and learning community is a hallmark of an Allegheny education. But these are unprecedented times.
Students have the choice to live and learn on campus, or to live and learn remotely. Students who make the decision to live and learn remotely are not permitted to come to campus. Students who have already received a housing exemption to be a commuter may live off campus and learn on campus.
Students who elect to live and learn remotely in Spring 2021 will not be charged for room and board but will be charged tuition and other fees. As a result, a student’s cost of attendance will change and financial aid may be reduced proportionately. Refunds will be issued for room and board payments already made, as appropriate.
Students who do not complete this form, as well as those who have not completed the leave process, will be assumed to be living and learning at Allegheny College in the spring and will be billed accordingly. Unless we hear otherwise from you, students who have already completed the existing housing exemption process for spring will be assumed to be living and learning as per that request.
If you have questions, please e-mail fall2020@allegheny.edu. Please review the form linked above before doing so, as it may answer your questions.
We look forward to receiving your responses.
April Thompson
Vice President of Student Life and Dean of Students
Ian Binnington
Dean of Curriculum and College Registrar